Counselling
What can counselling help with?
Counselling can support people across many situations, especially when an issue is affecting the life, relationships, and future they hope for.
Real conversations for positive change. Ruth offers narrative, solution-focused, and collaborative counselling in Tauranga.
Here to Help
If you are wondering whether Ruth may be a good fit for you or your whānau, this is a place to start. Problems can hold us back from the life we want and affect our relationships with others.
Counselling offers a respectful space to talk honestly, understand what is happening, and begin working toward the future you hope for.
Together we can create positive change.
Individual and couples
Counselling appointments
Ruth offers a personable, non-judgmental approach that holds hope for the outcomes you want, supported by life experience and counselling practice.
Individual Counselling Session
$130A chance for Ruth to hear your story, understand the struggles and challenges you are facing, identify your hopes for counselling, and explore realistic steps forward.
Couples Session
$170A space to identify what is getting in the way of the relationship you long for and tend to the aspects that bring life, fun, connection, and intimacy.
As clients rediscover freedom to be themselves, noticing strength and capability in areas partially hidden or undervalued, hope to continue in life in preferred ways comes into focus.
Ruth looks forward to hearing from you and hopefully working with you soon to get your life back.
Common areas of focus
- Shed new light on a problem, removing blame so we can work towards hoped for outcomes
- Relationship difficulties
- Identity crises
- Grief and loss
- Anxiety and depression
- Trauma
- Parenting and motherhood
- Eating disorders
- Self-esteem
What Ruth Offers
Ruth offers a non-judgmental, empathetic approach focused on helping clients navigate nervous distress and build resilience.
- Warm, caring environment
- Unconditional respect and confidentiality
- Attentive listening to understand your hopes
- Support that values your knowledge and perspective
- Practical ways forward
- Counselling experience since 2017
- Influential conversations that promote positive outcomes
The Way Ruth Works
Ruth specialises in narrative, solution-focused, and collaborative therapy. The work begins with understanding the issue and its wider supports and effects, then evaluating what is wanted in light of this information. We will notice skills, resilience, values, and capabilities that can help you move toward the life you want.
Narrative therapy recognises that people can become stuck in stories about themselves or their problems that are unhelpful. We work to separate the problem from the person and explore those stories with respect, curiosity and hope.
Solution-focused work keeps attention on the change you are hoping for and what may help you get there. Collaborative goals/hopes can be shaped around what you and/or your family value, then translated into realistic next steps.